Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
500 Tenge Why the swallow has a tail with horns
| Issuer | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
|---|---|
| Year | 2017 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | ҚАЗАҚСТАН РЕСПУБЛИКАСЫ РЕСПУБЛИКА КАЗАХСТАН 500 ТЕҢГЕ Ag 925 24 g. KMC 1967 2017 (Translation: 500 Tenge Republic of Kazakhstan 1967 2017) |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Part of Kazakhstan's ongoing folklore series, this coin commemorates one of the most widely told origin stories in Kazakh oral tradition — a tale explaining the forked tail of the barn swallow through a narrative involving a snake's stolen fire and divine retribution. The National Bank has issued dozens of such pieces drawing from the zhyrau tradition, the epic oral poetry passed down through steppe culture for centuries before any written codification existed.